WEBVTT SAY THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH THEYCAN DO.TOM: A RODENT ROUND-UP ISUNDERWAY AT SACRAMENTO'S JFKHIGH SCHOOL AFTER THIS VIDEO OFA RAT ON A RAMPAGE.SEEN HERE SITTING AT A DESK,THEN RUNNING ACROSS THE CARPETUP ONTO A DESK BEFORE SCURRYINGUP A WALL.SUBSTITUTE TEACHER VERONICALUTHER SAW IT FIRST-HAND. >> I LEFT THE ROOM FOR A MOMENTAND CAME BACK IN AND THE RAT WASTHERE AGAIN AND IT ACTUALLY RANTOWARD ME, WHICH SEEMED LIKEKIND OF UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR.I HAD TO STOMP MY FOOT AND CLAPBECAUSE I WAS AFRAID IT WASGOING TO ATTACK ME.TOM: LUTHER ALERTED THE DISTRICTWHICH MOVED STUDENTS TO THELIBRARY.AT THE END OF THE DAY, LUTHEREXPECTED A PROMISE THE ISSUEWOULD BE RESOLVED. >> INSTEAD THEY TOLD ME THAT IFI WAS CONCERNED ABOUT COMINGBACK THEY NEXT DAY IF THEYWEREN'T ABLE TO CLEAN, ISHOULDN'T COME BACK.TOM: THE DISTRICT SAYS THECLASSROOM WAS SANITIZED, TRAPSSET, AND PARENTS NOTIFIED, BUTTHEY CAN ONLY TAKE EXTERMINATIONEFFORTS SO FAR. >> WE CANNOT PUT RAT POISONS ALLOVER CAMPUS BECAUSE THAT POSESTHREAT TO OUR STUDENTS.WE ALSO CANNOT HAVE DEAD RATSDYING ON THE CAMPUS.TOM: TURNS OUT THE DISTRICT HASSOME EXPERIENCE WITH THIS.THE DISTRICT TELLS US THEY'VERECEIVED THREE REPORTS OF RATSHERE THIS MONTH ALONE ANDSTUDENTS TELL US THIS IS AREOCCURRING PROBLEM.>> IF THERE'S NOBODY WALKINGTHROUGH THE HALLS, A RAT WILLRUN OR SOMETHING.>> I SEEN A RAT SOMEWHERE NEARTHIS AREA JUST RUN ACROSS INTOTHE BUSES.>> IT'S NOT NORMAL.THAT'S NASTY ACTUALLY.TOM: THE DISTRICT SAYSCUSTODIANS ENDED UP CATCHING THERAT IN QUESTION.BUT, LUTHER BELIEVES THE ISSUEISN'T BEING ADEQUATELY ADDRESSEDIN THE RAT WILL BE BACK INCLASS.>> KNOWING HOW DANGEROUS ANDDISEASE-RIDDEN RATS CAN BE,YOU'D KIND OF THINK THAT THESCHOOL WOULD SHOW MORE CONCERN.

Video of a rat scurrying around a Sacramento high school classroom is getting a lot of attention after a substitute teacher posted it on Facebook.

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Veronica Luther backed out of her two-day assignment after finding the rat in her John F. Kennedy High School class.

"They told me that if I was concerned about coming back they next day, if they weren’t able to clean, I shouldn’t come back because there would be no way they’d be able to sanitize by the next morning," Luther said.

The video she posted on Facebook shows a rat running through an empty classroom and eventually scurrying up a wall and sitting on a ledge, seemingly overlooking the empty classroom. At one point, the rat climbed and sat at a desk.

The district said the classroom was sanitized, trap were set and parents were notified. But, they can only take extermination efforts so far.

"We cannot put rat poisons all over campus because that poses a threat to our students," Sacramento City Unified School District spokesperson Alex Barrios said. "We also cannot have dead rats dying on the campus because they ate the poison."

Officials admitted there have been multiple rats on campus and that this is an ongoing issue.